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What the deuce is it to me?" he interrupted impatiently: "you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.

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Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.

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He foresaw that she would be very much more useful to him in the character of a free woman.

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"I should have more faith," he said; "I ought to know by this time that when a fact appears opposed to a long train of deductions it invariably proves to be capable of bearing some other interpretation."

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Strange indeed is human nature. Here were these men, to whom murder was familiar, who again and again had struck down the father of the family, some man against whom they had no personal feeling, without one thought of compunction or of compassion for his weeping wife or helpless children, and yet the tender or pathetic in music could move them to tears.

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The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.

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‎A change of work is the best rest.

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You see, but you do not observe.

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The more we progress the more we tend to progress. We advance not in arithmetical but in geometrical progression. We draw compound interest on the whole capital of knowledge and virtue which has been accumulated since the dawning of time.

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If in 100 years I am only known as the man who invented Sherlock Holmes then I will have considered my life a failure.

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You're not hurt, Watson? For God's sake, say that you are not hurt!" It was worth a wound -- it was worth many wounds -- to know the depth of loyalty and love which lay behind that cold mask. The clear, hard eyes were dimmed for a moment, and the firm lips were shaking. For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain. All my years of humble but single-minded service culminated in that moment of revelation.

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I trust that age doth not wither nor custom stale my infinite variety.

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There is a soul-jealousy that can be as frantic as any body-jealousy.

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Violence is sometimes a duty.

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We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.

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So tomorrow we disappear into the unknown. This account I am transmitting down the river by canoe, and it may be our last word to those who are interested in our fate.

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Anything seems commonplace, once explained.

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His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing... My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System.

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London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

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Everything I have to say has already crossed your mind." "Then possibly my answer has crossed yours.

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